HTML Helper Remake...

conradk · Post by **conradk** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:44 pm

Hello people,

Has anyone tried this out ? The HtmlHelper class by the guy who sold most on CodeCanyon.
http://codecanyon.net/item/html-helper-class/161718

Here is the list of features:
label, textfield, textarea, checkbox, radiobutton, select, ul, ol, img, a, style, script, swf (embed youtube, vimeo and other flash content)

Anyways, I believe this item is a little bit overpriced ($4) for what it is, so I'm building my own HTML Preprocess Class.

I haven't figured out every features I'm going to add. However, I might release it on this forum for free (for 24 hours more or less) before trying to get it on CodeCanyon (not sure about CodeCanyon, but we'll see: I don't like to make people pay ^^)

Kind of a pay back even though you guys could probably do such a class rather quickly

I'm slow, so consider this as being the most awesome gift EVAAA

Quick preview of what the head would look like with this class (can't show the rest as I'm not that far yet xD):

<?php
include_once 'lib/htmlpp.class.php';
$htmlpp = new htmlpp();

/* Changing the head settings */
$htmlpp->version('5'); // Sets the page to be HTML 5 (default: xhtml 1.1)
$htmlpp->lang('fr'); // Sets the page language to French (default: en)

/* Meta tags */
$htmlpp->add_meta_tag('keywords', 'ConradK, Webdesign, PHP tutorials');
$htmlpp->add_meta_tag('description', 'ConradK is an 18 year old programmer');

/* Stylesheets */
$htmlpp->add_css('styles.css','print',TRUE); // 2nd and 3rd params optional default: media="all" and inline = FALSE

echo $htmlpp->head();
echo $htmlpp->meta_tags();
echo $htmlpp->stylesheets();
?>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

Any suggestions would be appreciated. This is a simple class, but writing meta tags or remembering the W3C DTDs is the most annoying thing IMO... so I thought I'd build a little tool to make everything easier.

Best regards,
CK

bowersbros · Post by **bowersbros** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:03 am

I'd suggest maybe having stuff like forms in a seperate class (makes more sense to do; new form();) and such.. Also, in __construct you might want to initialise everything that ever file has..

Doctype, html head body etc tags?

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 2:22 am

I'm in agreeance with Bowers;
Separation of the class will benefit both you in terms of organization and structure, and your users in that they can approach it in a logical manner.

I do believe this is a very worthwhile class that will save buckets of time in the end of things

conradk · Post by **conradk** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:45 am

Somewhat of a more final version:

/* HtmlHelper class
 *
 * @created : 8.7.2011
 * @function : simplify the writing process of HTML
 */
class HtmlHelper {
   
   /* New tag
    *
    * @created : 8.7.2011
    * @function : open a new tag (not self closing), add classes and an ID
    */
   public static function newTag($type = 'div', $classes = NULL, $id = NULL) {
      $return     = '<' . $type;
      if(is_string($id))
         $return .= ' id="' . $id . '"';
      if(is_string($classes))
         $return .= ' class="' . $classes . '"';
      $return    .= '>';
      return $return;
   }
   /* Close tag
    *
    * @created : 8.7.2011
    * @function : close any non self closing tag, add structure to the HTML page by adding information about which tag is being closed
    *
    * $info : the id or class of the tag that is closed, for example '.myCustomClass' or '#myCustomId'
    */
   public static function closeTag($type = 'div', $info = NULL) {
      $return     = '</' . $type;
      if(is_string($info))
         $return .= '<!-- /' . $info . ' -->';
      $return    .='>';
      return $return;
   }
   /* Meta tag
    *
    * @created : 8.7.2011
    * @function : add any meta tags that have a name and a content attribute    
    */
   public static function metaTag($name, $content) {
      $return = '<meta name="' . $name . '" content="' . $content . '" />';
      return $return;
   }
   /* Title of the HTML page
    *
    * @created : 8.7.2011
    */
   public static function title($title) {
      $return = '<title>' . $title . '</title>';
      return $return;
   }
   /* Favicon
    *
    * @created : 8.7.2011
    * @function : add a favicon to the page
    * @filetype: PNG
    */
   public static function favIcon($filePath) {
      $return = '<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="' . $filePath . '" />';
      return $return;
   }
   /* CSS
    *
    * @created : 8.7.2011
    * @function : add a new Cascading StyleSheet to the current page, and set the media it should apply to
    * @filetype : CSS
    */
   public static function css($filePath, $media = 'all') {
      $return = '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="' . $filePath . '" media="' . $media . '" />';
      return $return;
   }
   /* JS
    * @created : 8.7.2011
    * @function : add a new Javascript file to the current page, and choose whether it should defer or not
    * @filetype : JS
    */
   public static function js($filePath, $defer = FALSE) {
      $return     = '<script type="text/javascript" src="' . $filePath . '"';
      if($defer === TRUE)
         $return .= ' defer="defer"';
      $return    .= '></script>';
      return $return;
   }
}

Post by **jacek** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:52 am

line 18 classes should be class. Otherwise, nice

I will add some of the things you submitted to the library when I get around to it.

conradk · Post by **conradk** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:04 am

Oh yeah, sorry about that :/

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